Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.
speak hard, steal the air.
The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.
If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.
Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant nothing would. No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add...
Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.
In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.
Mr Baley, said Quemot, you can't treat human emotions as though they were built about a positronic brain.I'm not saying you can. Robotics is a deductive science and sociology an inductive one. But mat...
The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can't fi...
I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.
Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature.
Fiction is the evidence that reality exists
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of...
Hollywood movies, however, have brainwashed us into thinking that we can defeat the alien invaders if they are a few decades or centuries ahead of us in technology. Hollywood assumes that we can win b...
Resistance, however, is useless. (1939)
England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.
Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)
They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.
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